Running Back Built Its Name on Disco Edits. Its Next One Comes From Giegling's Ambient Underground.

What exactly did Edward rework?

Thirteen tracks, pulled from across house, techno and the colder reaches of kosmische and ambient. Edward, the Gilles Aiken alias best known through Giegling, turned Carl Craig's "Twilight" into a stripped-down drum version, cut Sven Väth's "L'Esperanza" into a "Spirit Edit," and gave Kirk Degiorgio's "Elate" an "Infinitiv Loop Version." Motohiko Hamase's ambient staple "Opaque" and Michael Rother's "Katzenmusik-5" sit next to Lenny Dee and Nico's early rave cut "E-Time," a spread that signals this isn't the disco-edit record Running Back usually puts out.

"These records mean a lot to me," Edward said of the selection. "They consist of edits I've gathered over the years, some of them going way back."

The triple LP, Running Back Mastermix: Edward - Edits, lands November 20 in a gatefold sleeve designed by GAM, with photography by Arne Zacher and mastering by Lopazz.

Why does handing Running Back's flagship series to Edward matter?

Running Back Records built its Mastermix series, and much of its identity, on disco and house edits made for the floor; label boss Gerd Janson has spent two decades as one of house music's most trusted crate-diggers. Putting the curatorial reins in Edward's hands, an artist whose own catalog leans hypnotic and minimal, closer to ambient than disco, is a statement about where Running Back thinks the next wave of taste is coming from.

"These records mean a lot to me. They consist of edits I've gathered over the years, some of them going way back.", Edward

Where is deep house's canon actually heading?

Running Back has handed the Mastermix slot to names like Marcel Dettmann before, each one quietly redrawing what counts as fair game for an edit. Edward's version pulls kosmische (Rother), ambient (Hamase) and proto-techno (Degiorgio, Craig) into the same frame as straight dance records, treating all of it as equally valid source material for the floor. For a scene still arguing over where house's lineage starts and ends, that is itself an editorial position, and a sign of where the next generation of tastemakers is looking.